Monday Motivation: Doors Slammed In Your Face

Guys, I'm sorry about that. Today's just not my day. We're gonna try here one more time. We're gonna try one more time here. So just give it a second. Tell the Cadre. Deal drops. This is real. This is real. Not. Not going my way today, but such is life. I apologize about that, y'. All. That was a total user error. So just giving you guys a little bit of lay of the land. If you do not have your settings set, like, again, this just goes to show, you know, I usually go at 8 o' clock every Monday, which I've done for months and months and months and months.

And the one time I don't, I forget to turn off my phone ring. So if a phone ring happens, it immediately messes it all up. So I apologize about that, guys. User error. My fault. I screwed it up. But at any rate, so we're jumping in. So I'm going to jump right into the. The door slams right in your face, right? So we're going to pick up where we left off. I apologize, people. This is all my fault. User error. So I'm going to give you an example. It was been. It would have been about 13 years ago, okay?

Been about 13 years ago, I was working for an organization called Thompson Reuters, and I was working for this company called, called Thompson Reuters. I ultimately was applying for this role based out of Oklahoma City. Okay, Just like Oklahoma City. And ultimately, I thought I had it. I thought I had it in the bag. I went through interview one, interview two, interview three. The recruiter had reached out and basically asked about relocation, bonus, all the things. I met with the hiring manager.

It just was all sounding so good, almost too good to be true. And we went to the point of, like, my wife and I were talking about, you know, should we start looking at places in Oklahoma? And all the things. Like I said, this was 13 years ago. And all of a sudden, on Friday, on that Friday, I got an email that came through and that was the day we were going to be announced who, you know, had the job. And I thought for sure that was me. And I got the email that said, I'm sorry, we went with a different candidate.

Not those words. And I was devastated. I was absolutely devastated. I was like, this was it. I called my wife. I remember crying to her on the phone going, I can't believe I got leapfrogged for this job. And I felt taken advantage of. I was frustrated. I was. All those things. And what turned out to be the greatest thing that ever happened to me, the Greatest thing that ever happened to me that I did not get that job. All of a sudden it was like two weeks later, and I was looking for different roles then, which a lot of people do.

So as soon as you go for that big job, you put yourself out there, you go through interview 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and you know you got the job or you didn't get the job. In this case, I didn't get the job. Ultimately turned out to be the most insanely amazing thing that ever happened to me because then I started looking for jobs and I found one on indeed, excuse me, not indeed. Craigslist. Craigslist from back in the day. And it was for Hazel and Betty Ford foundation with a business development director role.

And I'll never forget, I was like, I don't know exactly what this is, but I'm going to try learning a lot about the health and human services field. And by not getting that job, I ended up landing in the most perfect opportunity in the world for me, which is landing at Hazel, Betty Ford, finding so much out about myself. I didn't make the same amount of money that I did before, but it wasn't about the money. It was this opportunity. And this opportunity changed my life. Thirteen years later, the rest is history.

Right? And so what I encourage you, what I encourage you to do is I encourage you to think about something that's happened recently, maybe in the last month, two months, and to think about this story, to think about this story and how it can possibly resonate with you and to say, you know, what door has slammed in my face that has now turned out to be this? Or maybe it hasn't turned out to be that yet, but you can make it that, like that door slamming was the worst thing in the world, but it turned out to be the absolute best.

And I would have never known in the moment, but now, looking back 13 years, that no has forever changed my life to a series of yeses that has allowed me to be where I am today. Loving the health and human services field, loving the behavioral health space, loving, supporting and helping others, finding out about myself, learning about anxiety, depression, substance abuse, all the behavioral health things that exist. So I really want you to think about something. Number one, put yourself out there.

Number two, if you have put yourself out there and you got that door slammed in face one way or another, just remember, oh, I love that, Nikki, that the slam door opened your window. Oh, my gosh, that is gold. That is absolutely gold. But it's gonna happen for somebody else too. On this call by call, I mean livestream. Somebody's gonna listen to this, and somebody's gonna watch this today, tomorrow, in the future, and go, hmm, you know, that first one kind of sucked. He did? No, I'm just kidding.

But that first one was kind of brutal. Moving into the second one, I learned a lot from this comment, these comments, and I hope this story resonates. So with that being said, I hope everybody has a phenomenal week. I want to yet again apologize about the technical difficulty. It was user error. User error. All my fault. Happy to admit that. So I apologize to y', all, but have a wonderful week. Lift somebody up. And if that door slams in your face, just know that there's something very, very beautiful poking through, or in Nikki's case, yet again, slam door opened up your window.

So take care, you guys. Have a wonderful, wonderful week and enjoy it. Lift somebody up. And remember, lots of doors opening for y'. All. Bye. Bye.